Kitchen Table No. 6 – digest from the chatline
Tending the Garden : How Microbes Feed Us Welcome, science nerds et al, to a digest of the gut-friendly chatline from our sixth Kitchen Table co-hosted by Symposium Trustees Jessica Seaton…
Author: Elisabeth Luard
Kitchen Table No. 5 – digest from the chatline
Smells Nasty and Nice: How they guide us in the Kitchen and at the Table Harold McGee, former OSFC Trustee and organiser of our Young Chef’s Programme and pioneer Symposiast Fuchsia…
As we get ready to celebrate our 40th year, symposium Chair Elisabeth Luard takes us back to the beginnings of OSFC
Wind the clock back forty years to 1981. Assembled at St Antony’s College, Oxford, is random collection of philosophers, historians, scholars, non-scholars, readers, writers, scientists, biologists and (mostly) subscribers and…
Kitchen Table No. 4 – digest from the chatline
Can Food Really Bring People Together? Kamal Mouzawak, Christine Codsi and Jaimee Lee Haddad of Souk El Tayeb joined Symposium trustee David Matchett to tell us about life in Lebanon and…
Kitchen Table No. 3 – digest from the chatline
Shared Visions: Expressions of Hope Through Food on the Table Symposium Chair Elisabeth Luard, Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir, Priscilla Mary Işın, Priya Mani and Linda Roodenburg joined Symposium trustee Gamze İneceli to…
Kitchen Table No. 2 – digest from the chatline
Women and Diaspora : Making – Do and Rebuilding, For Food, With Food (Image clockwise: Munira Mahmoud, Devaky Sivadasan, and Asma Khan) We were privileged to have three remarkable women…
Kitchen Table No. 1 – digest from the chatline
When Marion Nestle and Scott Barton pulled up a chair at the OFS Kitchen Table to discuss Food, Power and the Powerless with some hundred fellow-guests, it was clear that…
Announcing the first OFS Kitchen Table: Tickets available
Book now to pull up a chair at the very first OSF Kitchen Table on Tuesday October 20th for our first informal, interactive gathering by special request from this year’s…
Alan Davidson and the Symposium’s Turkish connection
Charles Perry pays tribute to the diplomat and food historian Alan Davidson, an incurable romantic who changed the course of food history Elisabeth Luard writes: In celebration of our Turkish…
The First Voyage of Starship V-Symp
Naomi Duguid: Final Report from a Crewmember Each year the Symposium is like a vigorous green garden of aromatic and sometimes spicy conversations and ideas. And this year, magically, even…
